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Hey, i'd like to suggest a button which offers the functionality to copy the download/stream URL of the current video file. This can be pretty helpful for different cases like direct play in VLC or i personally also spend a lot of time in VRChat, video players exist there too and it would be nice if there was a way to playback personal media. Inspiration S1, S2

I have had a few people ask me to explain how I set up my Apache server to forward to my Emby server. Here is a breakdown of how mine is set up should anyone else wish to try this. This is just my way of doing this (yeah, I know, Nginx exists but I have always been an Apache user). Note that I use RPM based distributions, and my frontend Apache server is running on Fedora Server Edition (so that I can have the http/2 goodness). My instructions will emphasize this type of Linux distribution, so you will need to read up on how your particular flavor of Linux handles Apache installations. First off, here is an overview of my network. Everyone's network is different, but this is what I have set up: edge firewall -> wireless ap/firewall -> apache server -> media server (where the media files are actually stored) On my firewalls, I only have ports 80 and 443 tcp opened up, and they forward to my Apache server. No other ports are exposed to the Internet. My Emby server is not configured with SSL. All SSL is terminated at my Apache server. This way, I can use one SSL certificate to encrypt any web services that I run on my network, without trying to get a certificate for each individual server installation. Anything that comes in on port 80 automatically gets forced over to port 443 (this is done by my Apache server itself). I am also using HTTP/2 which has helped with the various web services that my Apache frontend is exposing to the web. Also, all of my internal servers are running host-based firewalls. There is nothing wrong with security in depth here, and I have personally not heard a valid reason to not run a host-based firewall for your networking services. I use https://letsencrypt.org/ for my SSL certificate. It's free, and their tools are awesome. If you use their services, please donate to them as they are providing a valuable service to practically every community. I also have my own domain name set up and registered, with a dynamic IP from my ISP. There are a plethora of services that will let you register your dynamic IP for a domain name, so search around for the one that suits you best. Personally, I am using Google Domains for mine. My firewall assists in keeping my latest IP registered for my domain. This is extremely handy for mobile devices and family members who wish to use my Emby server remotely. Here are the general steps I would recommend to someone setting this up for themselves: Use an edge firewall. The extra protection is worth it. Use your edge firewall to keep track of your public IP, and use whatever agent that your dynamic DNS provider provides to keep your latest IP registered for your domain. I do not recommend doing this from your Apache server, as your Apache server should be further into your network and protected by your other firewall(s). Set up an SSL certificate for your domain. Again, LetsEncrypt is pretty awesome. Install Apache on a server that can handle a fair amount of network traffic. If you are using LetsEncrypt, set up the agent to keep up with your SSL certificate on this server. dnf groupinstall "Web Server" dnf install mod_http2 Configure your Apache server. On a Fedora, CentOS, RHEL system create a file called /etc/httpd/conf.d/00_yourdomain.conf (the two zeroes are there to make sure that your domain file is loaded first). Here are snippets of my configuration (cleaned up a bit for, you know, security): <VirtualHost *:80> Protocols h2c http/1.1 # Send everything over to https instead, best practice over mod_rewrite ServerName example.com Redirect / https://example.com/ </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost _default_:443> # Enable http/2 Protocols h2 http/1.1 <IfModule http2_module> LogLevel http2:info </IfModule> SSLEngine on SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3 SSLCipherSuite EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DH-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256+EDH:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4 SSLHonorCipherOrder On SSLCompression off Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains" Header always set X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN Header always set X-Content-Type-Options nosniff SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/cert.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem <Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </Files> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </Directory> BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-5]" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 ServerName example.com ServerAlias example.com ErrorLog logs/example-error_log RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/emby(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8096/emby$1 [proxy] RewriteRule ^/emby http://127.0.0.1:8096 [proxy] RewriteRule ^/embywebsocket(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8096/embywebsocket$1 [proxy] RewriteRule ^/embywebsocket http://127.0.0.1:8096 [proxy] <location /emby> ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8096/ ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8096/ </location> <location /embywebsocket> ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8096/ ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8096/ </location> </VirtualHost> So what this does for me is let Apache handle all incoming port 80 requests, and turns them into encrypted traffic. All connections to and from the server (that can support it) are encapsulated in HTTP/2 packets. All of my SSL encrypted web traffic is handled by one certificate, so I can have multiple URL paths served by the same domain name, with only the https port used, and it just plain looks cleaner. For example, you can have: https://example.com/emby https://example.com/nextcloud https://example.com/hello_kitty_island_adventure Or whatever suits your needs. My Emby server doesn't have to worry about any proxy configurations or SSL, as Apache takes care of all of that. My example is using the localhost IP address to direct all incoming and outgoing Emby requests, but if you are using a separate host that runs Emby, just make sure to use the IP of that system instaed and that you have port 8096 open and available. I hope that others may find this helpful.

Currently I only have a 9 seasons serie at my server and would be awesome if I could continue where I left off with one click. Why this? Because I love how Emby organize and get all the metadata of my series. It's really beautiful. It's much more pleasant and organized than just using video players. I use Linux, but since this is a non-specific OS question, I posted here.

I seem to be having issues accessing my server from the internet in certain situations. Currently, my SSL connections is handled by a reverse proxy, apache. This URL is (for example) https://emby.server.com/ but the URL listed on my dashboard is listed as https://emby.server.com:8920/. When connecting to my server with the reverse proxy URL I never have any issues establishing a connection but the URL posted in the dashboard seems to go down randomly. This is an issue because users connecting to my server with emby connect accounts are usually trying to access the server via dashboard URL. My question is can I drop the port number from the WAN access URL on my dashboard and set it to just https://emby.server.com/ or can we troubleshoot why the dashboard URL is not connecting to my server? Please let me know if I need to provide any logs.

Hi, everybody. Did not find a similar question on the forum and created a topic. There is a server on Windows and Emby server installed. How can I change the link from localhost:8096 to localhost:8096/emby ? P.S. sorry for english, I use google translate =)

how can I play a url in the emby player, natively inside the library, without being plugins. Due to the excellent presentation, organization and functionality that the library does in comparison to the IPTV plugin for example. it may be a stupid response from me but there it goes: I thought about editing a file (.m3u and etc ...) and insert the link inside it (http: //.......mp4) and then copy the file inside the folder containing the movies / series and etc, to see if it reproduces in the player of the emby but without success. would be in short, to do an alternative task with the operation of the IPTV plugin for the emby natively, without requiring a plugin. Any help i'll be thankful!

Hi, I've been using Emby for a while now and i really like it, So much so I want to get a domain name for it so instead of having a DDNS address point users to my servers IP address and port I just want to have a URL instead or my IP address and port. For example. Current - http://dukservers.ddns.net goes to http://86.16.144.46:8096/web/index.html Wanting - www.exampledomain.co.uk How would i go about doing this? Many thanks David

Hi I'm hoping you can help me with this problem. I have the latest Emby server on windows 7 64-bit and I spent hours setting up my Live Tv yesterday with the Live tv section on the server. I put a url in for the iptv service i subscribe to and also put 4 schedules direct epgs and the xml epg from my iptv service. I spent several hours matching channels up and getting the guid to put the channels in what order i wanted them. And when I went back on this morning the server changed the url address to an old one that i use to use. And it deleted the xml epg also. I don't know why this happened? I did a restore from the server configuration plug-in and it still has this old m3u url in it? I have attached my server logs from 4am in the morning and then the server log from when i went back on around 10am. Let me know how to prevent this from happening please

I'm interested in changing the Local Address used to access my Emby installation from the HTPC's IP address to "localhost" or the computer's name. I don't see anywhere in the Emby Server settings that I can do this. Am I missing it? If not can this be done via a registry edit or the modification of an .ini file, etc.? Current Local Address: http://192.168.1.115:8096 Proposed Local Address: http://localhost:8096 or http://htpc:8096 How do I do it? Thanks, MJ

Hello all, On what basis is the url generated on the web client like this http://localhost:8096/web/itemdetails.html?id=1f69f63c3cdb2c41d0f4cf39066a344e can I access the media item by its name rather than a long id? please help me..how is the id generated

In library manager it's possible to download images for a given item from either - data found by scrappers online, or - local folders In addition, it would be nice if we could just copy/past an url to an image file. Thanks for your awesome work.

Can anyone give me an example how to request json data from the api in a http url?

how do I get the / media browser the url ex: 192.168.0.114:80 / MediaBrowser ex: 192.168.0.114 I'm using windows 7